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Event 1/12
Sustainable Development goals in education
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are global goals established by the United Nations to promote sustainable development.
Education plays a crucial role in achieving these goals, and helps create global citizens who are committed to addressing SDG challenges. This includes raising awareness, promoting values, critical thinking, empowerment, lifelong learning, and fostering global collaboration.
Integrating SDGs into the curriculum can be done through various approaches and practices, such as studying climate change in science or analysing poverty rates in mathematics.
The “learn-think-act” technique supports students in acquiring knowledge and taking action. While more course content and curriculum modifications are needed, teachers can still bring SDGs into the classroom.
Event 2/12
NAVIGATING THE ENGLISH TEACHING JOB MARKET IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
The interactive workshop with Eliza will help you:
Gain a clear understanding of the legal requirements for English teachers in popular Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and more.
Learn about visa regulations, work permits, and how to ensure you meet the necessary criteria
Build your confidence to prepare English teaching interviews, including researching potential employers and schools.
Explore effective strategies for showcasing your qualifications and experiences to stand out as a strong candidate.
Learn about resources and organisations that support fair hiring practices in the field of English language education.
Eliza Keyton is an education professional from the US, who has worked across S Korea, the UAE, Vietnam, and India. Since 2009, she has taught, trained, and administered in EAL environments, as well as earned a Delta and an MA in educational administration. She currently develops and implements professional development workshops for Vietnamese English teachers in Hanoi public schools.
Event 3/12
creative elt portfolio: YOUR GUIDE TO CREATING PROFESSIONAL SHORT FORM VIDEOS
A digital portfolio serves as a powerful tool that goes beyond the traditional resume.
It’s a snapshot of your capabilities and facilitates meaningful connections and collaborations in an increasingly digital and interconnected world.
Created For Educators, By Educators, this workshop caters to ELT professionals wanting to showcase their skills and stand out.
The Creative ELT Portfolio workshop will help you:
Deliver impactful pieces to camera, ensuring your message is heard loud and clear.
Overcome camera shyness and boost your confidence!
Understand your viewers’ needs and tailor your content accordingly.
Navigate the world of mobile video creation with clear, step-by-step, outlines.
Event 4/12
Creative writing in the efl classroom
This training session will aim to give teachers ideas on how to include modules of creative writing in their language courses, whether long or short. We will look at poetry writing, character creation and script writing.
Ásdís is an EFL teacher at an upper secondary school in Reykjavik and an adjunct at the department of Education at the University of Iceland. Her areas of interests are teaching academic vocabulary in a communicative classroom and using creative writing to promote interest, cultural awareness and well being among her students.
Event 5/12
AI ON YOUR SIDEBAR: EXPLOITING ITS POTENTIAL TO CREATE TEACHING MATERIALS
A transformative session where Fajarudin Akbar will demonstrate how simple, free generative AI tools can be expertly utilized to create innovative and effective teaching materials.
This webinar is designed for English language teachers who are eager to incorporate advanced technological tools into their teaching practices to enhance learning outcomes and engage students in novel ways.
Event 6/12
Misconceptions and Myths about communication as ESL healthcare professionals
After 15 years of working in the healthcare and ESL industries, Shweta witnessed an urgent need for ESL healthcare workers to learn the “soft skills” that create a successful and well-rounded professional.
Shweta founded Healthy Dynamics to equip ESL Healthcare workers with the tools and strategies to communicate empathetically authentically, assertively and articulately to gain credibility, validation and respect in the workplace whilst building credible relationships with their patients and delivering them an exemplary experience, ultimately achieving workplace excellence and success.
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Event 7/12
Language Proficiency vs. Teaching Proficiency: Prioritizing Teaching Skills in Language Teaching
Courtney became an English Fellow with the US Department of State in 2024.
With over ten years of K-12, university and international experience, she works as an English language lecturer and as a teacher trainer.
Courtney is currently pursuing a PhD in education with concentration in English language learning and is now considered ‘ABD’. Studies and modules in the United States, Türkiye, Greece, The Netherlands and Romania are the foundations of an in-depth interdisciplinary and multilingual preparation.
She also serves on the leadership team of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, and holds the title of Intensive English Program Coordinator.
Courtney enjoys curriculum development and design, championing humanitarian causes and raising awareness of native speakerism in the field of language teaching.
This webinar is designed for English language teachers who are eager to incorporate advanced technological tools into their teaching practices to enhance learning outcomes and engage students in novel ways.
Event 8/12
Making Intercultural Language Education Relevant to English Language Teachers
Carolina Cunha has been an English teacher for over 20 years and is based in Brazil.
She holds a BA in English and an MA in Sociolinguistics as well as the following Cambridge certificates: CAE, CPE, TKT, CELTA, and Train the Trainer.
She currently works as a freelance teacher and teacher trainer, is an active member of BRAZ-TESOL, and is the leader of the BRAZ-TESOL Minas Gerais chapter.
Event 9/12
Learning Strategy Theory and Materials Design
This interactive workshop will help you:
- understand what learning strategies are (and what they’re not)
- learn how to assess your learners’ strategy preferences
- analyze published materials in terms of the learning strategies they encourage
- design or adapt teacher and learner materials to encourage balanced strategy use
Kirstie is based in Germany. She has been working in ELT since gaining CELTA in 2006. She completed DELTA in 2023 and is currently working towards an MA in Professional Development for Language Education with NILE/University of Chichester. She has experience in face-to-face and virtual classrooms and as a materials developer, in both EFL and ESL contexts. When not TEFLing, Kirstie enjoys hiking, watching cricket (when possible) and reading.
Event 10/12
Curriculum Development in the 21st Century (rescheduled)
Caio is a Ph.D. student in Spanish (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education), holds an M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics, an Ed.M. in Bilingual/Bicultural Education, a certificate of specialization in Teaching English as a Second Language, and works as a research assistant and instructor of Linguistics and Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Caio is also a visiting instructor of Research Methodology (in context of English as a Medium of Instruction) and Business English at the College of Technology (FATEC) at Praia Grande. He is currently working on an M.B.A. in School Management at the University of São Paulo (USP).
He holds a certificate of specialization in Psychopedagogy and Neurosciences and a B.A. in Linguistics and Literature (Portuguese) from Paulista University(UNIP). He was a Fulbright scholar at Washington and Lee University (W&L) and holds a TESOL diploma from the International Language Academy of Canada (ILAC).
Caio accumulates around fifteen years of professional experience in the classroom. He has taught English, Spanish, and Portuguese as foreign languages in Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, and the US. He has also worked with schools throughout Brazil to implement bilingual educational programs across different levels and subjects.
Currently, he is also an author of textbooks for Higher Education.
Event 11/12
Do you ELF? Adopting teaching practices that help your students become truly global communicators
Deepika has been an English language teacher since 2013. She started her teaching career at the British Council in India, continued to teach in various contexts in the United States and online, and most recently just wrapped up her two-year stint as a language assistant in Teruel, Spain. She has a masters in TESOL from Columbia University, and she is about to begin her PhD journey in applied linguistics specializing in English as a Lingua Franca at Universitat de Lleida.
Event 12/12
From Rules to Reality: Adopting a Descriptive Approach in English Language Teaching
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In the dynamic world of language teaching, NNESTs often find themselves navigating the challenging terrain of over-compensation, over-justification, over-qualification – the relentless pursuit of proving their worth and expertise beyond measure.
Rhiannon shares about how it is essential to strike a balance between acknowledging the realities of the world we live in and recognising that participation in the “must try harder” mindset is not the only path to success.
About Rhiannon: With over a decade’s experience of language teaching in various English schools, and having gained her DELTA in 2018, Rhiannon decided to set up her own business in 2020. She has moved away from language teaching and is now a mindset coach, helping her high-level clients overcome the mental and emotional barriers that prevent them from enjoying their English.
The session is designed specifically for educators with a diverse language background, so that it inspires you to master the intricacies of English phonology and effectively guide your students through their language learning journey.
About Dennis:Dennis Warren has been teaching English for 20 years. He spent many years as academic manager of a prestigious language school in Southern Brazil, but now works as an independent teacher and teacher trainer. Dennis has a background in formal and computational linguistics.
Does one language interfere with another? How soon or late should be start raising bilingual children and what are some ‘dos and don’ts’ we need to consider? Most importantly, what does some of the modern research say about bilingualism and our ability to learn 2 or more languages at a young age? We will be addressing all these questions in this session with Kaila!
About Kaila: Kaila Diaz is a sociolinguist (M.A.) who specialises in childhood and family bilingualism. She is the director of Bilingüitos
https://bilinguitos.com, an educational platform and online community for parents raising bilingual kids. Kaila also hosts the Bilingual Parenting Podcast.
Recording of the Live Session with Braz-Tesol on Native Speakerism and its pervasive ideology. The talk was sponsored by ILE SIG and MG Chapter.
About Meri: She is the founding member of The Non Native Speaker. She holds a CELTA and a Global DELTA Cambridge Diploma from CLIC International House in Seville, Spain, as well as a Master’s Degree in Language Studies.
Being both a Spanish and English teacher, David possesses the experience of instructing in both his native and non-native languages. We will be inspecting the valuable assets multilingualism brings when assisting students, and how this can help with the ability to empathize and guide students along a similar path to achieve their language goals.
About David: David Cabeza’s education, knowledge and experience are highly humanistic, eclectic and diverse. He is a recent neuro-language coach who studied Forestry at University and got the C2 Cambridge Certificate after migrating to the UK. He has worked in around 10 different fields (from CEO of a company to sandwich man), and he has taught different fields (from makeup artists to vets). He has also lived in different countries (from the UK to Uruguay) and learned English when he was 33!
In the 60(-ish) minutes of the workshop we will cover how to build a brand that stands out in the saturated ELT market so you can find your own perfect and well-paying clients.
You will leave the workshop with a better understanding of the principles of marketing your language teaching services and have more confidence to get visible to your potential clients, ‘even’ as a non-native speaker. We will cover the principles of branding, different ways of online marketing and pricing your services. There will also be time to ask all your burning questions at the end.
About Ola: Ola Kowalska is a business coach and mentor who specialises in helping freelance teachers to build fun, profitable and sustainable businesses to reach their own version of freedom. She’s had vast experience as an EFL teacher, CELTA trainer, language school owner and school manager and since 2021 has decided to focus on empowering her language teaching tribe to make more, work less, enjoy them selves and make a bigger impact.
Ola runs a weekly podcast called ‘Get richer, teacher’, send weekly inspiring emails and is active on Instagram @ola_coaches_teachers. She is known for nudging people into taking action and offers support in her two flagship programs ‘The Rocket Take off’ and ‘The Rocket Accelerator’. – olakowalska.com
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Many teaching practices in ELT are still deeply rooted in monolingual frameworks.
These organised workshops, presentations and events should help language teachers explore their own multilingual journey and discover how this can benefit an array of language settings that go beyond monolingual classrooms.